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...itinerary sounded like something drawn up by a Caribbean cruise director: Barbados and St. Lucia, Haiti and Jamaica, Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and the U.S. Gulf Coast. But the voyage left shattering death and destruction in its wake. Hurricane Allen brought savage 185 m.p.h. winds and 20-ft. waves. It wiped out most of the Caribbean banana crop, demolished thousands of homes and killed more than 100 people before its final landfall in Texas. Said Noel Risnychok, a meteorologist at Miami's National Hurricane Center, as the winds scythed through the normally placid Caribbean: "Allen has the potential...
Elliott said the effects of modernization on women's roles has caused different problems in different societies. In the Yucatan, she said, "Women are gradually becoming economically dependent on men as they had not been before." In Malaysia, however, she said, "Women are entering the paid labor force in larger numbers than ever before...
...such, a quintessentially gonzo situation. Hunter Thompson and his "technical adviser" (drug conduit) Yail Bloor, while escaping the angry Yucatan town of Cozumel and unpaid bills for hotel rooms, drugs and cars, have to get rid of "two hits of MDA, six tabs of acid, about a gram and a half of raw cocaine, four reds and a random handful of speed" before their Aeromexico flight touches down in Texas. The Lone Star State, it seems, has a reputation for being unfriendly to people who try to carry massive amounts of hallucinogens through customs...
...Travel is often an essential and expensive element. At a price of $1,555 each, Adelphi University is sending 20 students from Long Island to India to study historic sites where the country's religions originated. Oxford College, a division of Emory University, offers a trip to the Yucatan to study Mexican civilization. California's Mills College counts among its 30 interterm courses one called "Backpacking in Hawaii." For $450, the Mills students are shepherded through the volcanic areas of the island state, taught to read topographical maps and encouraged to complete an individual research project during...
Round trip plane fare to Yucatan is $300, but, the travel agent insisted, "Their tacos are out of this world...